{"id":20,"date":"2015-01-13T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-10-16T18:57:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T18:57:41","slug":"humbly-and-quietly-searching-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Humbly and Quietly Searching – Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Day two starts with an early morning walk up the mountain.<\/span><\/span>
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\nThe graceful Atma leads the way. She knows this particular trail very well, so I walk right behind her feeling well-guided. As we ascend, I realize that even though I\u2019m almost 30 years younger than she is, she definitely is the fit one! She walks with such vigor and simplicity whereas I – from time to time – need to stop and take in as much fresh air as possible and regain my strength.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nAfter a while, I start to lag behind.<\/span>
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\nLike a loving teacher, she glances over her shoulder to give me a look, a commanding look that says \u201cyou can do better than that”. I lag even further behind as Atma, like a feather, continues to stroll up the mountain. The negative mind takes over and I start to curse the whole expedition. As I\u2019m about to totally give up, I realize we are only a few steps away from the peak<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n

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We reach the top. I stand on top of one of the big rocks with my eyes wide opening taking in as much of the landscape as possible. As I breathe in more oxygen, I begin to relax. I reach for my bag and take out a bottle of water.  I gulp the water down like a camel. Atma totally ignores her bottle of water, clearly she is not as thirsty as I am, actually not thirsty at all! <\/span><\/span>We stand there – student and teacher – with nothing to say. Together, we quietly observe the scenery. <\/span>
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\nThen it occurs to me: one is never alone.  Atma, the divine soul, is always there saying \u201cyou can do much better than that\u201d.  Truly, each one of us has an<\/span><\/span> <\/span>Atma<\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day two starts with an early morning walk up the mountain. The graceful Atma leads the way. She knows this particular trail very well, so I walk right behind her feeling well-guided. As we ascend, I realize that even though I\u2019m almost 30 years younger than she is, she definitely is the fit one! She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsonsoil.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}